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John Riney III

@8bithe.art
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8-bit heart in a double precision world. Mostly old computers and cats. My opinions are mine alone. Fuck Trump, Elon, Nazis, and GenAI. Instagram: instagram.com/8bithe.art Twitch: twitch.tv/jay_threezy Blog, projects: 8bithe.art

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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 28/09/2026
Your reminder that there is a felon in the White House identified in the Epstein files as a rapist, there has been no investigation, and the files are still being hidden in violation of federal law.
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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No one should be surprised that OpenAI — a company that built their systems on stolen work — would steal the work of researchers and try to take credit for it.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 27/09/2026
I spent my entire 20+yr career in tech being told that hooking up with/dating your coworkers was the worst possible thing you could do in a professional environment (a sentiment I generally agree with) and now the "AI" bros are doing this shit?!?
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 26/09/2026
I went to a tech hangout wearing this t-shirt. Three separate people asked if I used AI to make it. Like.... what the fuck? Do people not remember that you can make things? By yourself? With your own little brain? #fuckai
A white male with a bald head and mostly white beard wearing a black t-shirt with the words "F*ck AI." on the front
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 25/09/2026
#vcf needs to get on board as well. There were a small but prominent number of tables with slop posters and AI-developed products without acknowledgement at #vcfmw.
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mjc0961 @mjc0961.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Sometimes I will not find any self-reporting of A.I. usage, play the project, then later come to find out it was slop the whole time." I won't play anything without a disclosure at this point. It usually means they did use AI and want to hide it. Anyone who didn't use it is proud to say "no AI"
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 25/09/2026
listening to very moderated, polite discourse on KQED about a deranged narcissist building a literal sniper nest in the middle of DC. Literally no discussion about who he's planning to murder in the next couple months
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PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 22/09/2026
"I guess it's time to say goodbye, Charlie." www.live5news.com/video/2019/0...
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RAW VIDEO: Charlie Hall, Bill Sharpe sign off from old studios as Hurricane Hugo approaches [1989]
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This seems to be a no-brainer to me. Everyone I know who has tried playing around with these things learns very quickly that what they produce seems pretty good only when you're dealing with subjects you know little/nothing about.
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Something I said in a conversation this week!
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 18/09/2026
The only ethical solution (if we had a functioning government) is to nationalize, shut down, and prosecute.
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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dear Apple, I'm not going to install #macOS Golden Gate, until you provide a switch disabling everything AI, including preventing the download of that humungous LLM thing. I don't want to sacrifice 20 GiB of internal storage for something I'd never ever use. Yours, Disgruntled. #NoAI
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 13/09/2026
Never thought I'd get to plug a Commodore 64 into a DJ booth and blast SID tunes, but here we are. #vcfmw #commodore
A view from the sound booth at Life Bar Arcade in Schaumburg, IL, featuring a moderately sized crowd and a Commodore 64 Ultimate plugged into the sound system
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 09/09/2026
I got my first "gen Z stare". I am very understanding about people's sitiations but "flight attendant" is perhaps not the job you should pick if answering a single, basic question about where to put my bag makes you cover your face and mutter incomprehensibly 🫢
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 09/09/2026
Much like "AI" models are running out of training data, VC is running out of things to monetize, and thinking is one of the last. These companies utterly loathe the notion that humans can create something without having to pay for the privilege, and are trying their best to destroy that capability.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 08/09/2026
me: *follows developer account* developer account: "I have to concede, LLMs are better at" me: *unfollows developer account* #fuckai
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 08/09/2026
it's also so incredible that everyone's taking Jensen posting about AGI as anything other than as a way to market the product he sells, like how gullible are you people
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 01/09/2026
Happy to learn that DOSBox-X, which I already like for compatibility reasons, has a "no vibe coding" policy. #dos
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 31/08/2026
OMG, I've got to start working on my possum game again.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 28/08/2026
And people say American innovation is dead.
A flask in the form of a fanny pack and shaped like a hairy beer gut, filled with Fireball whiskey
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 28/08/2026
No matter how hard you're laughing at this dipshit it's not hard enough. Get fucked
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 28/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarise yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
The character selection screen from
Mario Kart SNES, with Mario, Princess Peach, Bowser, a Koopa, Luigi, Yoshi, Donkey Kong (Jr.?) and Toad.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 27/08/2026
Rats will clump together to keep from drowning. Salesforce is utterly useless - web-based Microsoft Access with despicable sales practices - now with a rich layer of shit-flavored "AI" frosting on top. I hope their stupid dick-shaped building falls into the Bay. #fuckai www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/s...
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Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to ‘SaaSpocalypse’ concerns
"We're delivering a dynamic interface that thinks, reasons, and acts," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in a statement.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
AI slop is creativity in the same way a chop shop is a car factory
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 21/08/2026
Nowhere in this murderous, hyper-dystopian word salad is the notion that they could just fucking *stop*. #fuckai openai.com/index/introd...
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Introducing AI Futures
Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 21/08/2026
cc: @chucktingle.bsky.social
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 18/08/2026
I have no words. Thank you for your service, Julia.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 17/08/2026
I have added two understated t-shirts to my product offering. #fuckai 8bitheart.printful.me/product/the-...
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The Understated T-Shirt
Perhaps you are not entirely in favor of technologies that want to destroy your essential humanity and reduce you to a mindless consumer of intelligence
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, in heaven. A dog with little wings runs towards her open arms. Off panel, a speech bubble reads “welcome to Heaven! Here is your dog!”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. She says, “where’s my cat?”
The third panel zooms out. There are dogs with little wings everywhere. Sarah says, “Where’s ANY of the cats?”
The fourth panel shows a circle of cats holding hands and dancing gleefully surrounded by flames in hell.
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Jupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Yeah. That was the big innovation of GPT: stealing.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 13/08/2026
woo that was a wobbly one #earthquake #oakland
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 12/08/2026
Oh fuck entirely off. www.ktvu.com/news/develop...
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Developer unveils plans for AI data center in Oakland
Plans were unveiled for a brand-new 20,000-square-foot artificial intelligence data center in downtown Oakland, sparking debate among local residents over economic growth and environmental impacts.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 12/08/2026
Exactly right. The only way to be able to authoritatively take credit for your own work is to not taint it with "AI" at any stage. #fuckai
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Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿 @pvanheus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Someone made a similar finding with code: blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/m...
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Mea Culpa - Dark Hours
Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who …
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 11/08/2026
Why isn't there a news crew following this guy every hour of every day? I would love to see what our $765,000 a year is getting us. #oakland oaklandside.org/2026/08/11/o...
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Who was the city of Oakland's highest paid employee in 2025?
Once again, overtime ensured that police officers dominated the ranks of Oakland's top earners.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 08/08/2026
If anyone at #dragoncon would like to express their dissatisfaction with certain "inevitable" technologies, I will have badge ribbons available free of charge, in two fetching colorways! #fuckai
A black badge ribbon with "F*ck AI." in copper foil text.A cream-colored badge ribbon with "F*ck AI." in copper foil text.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 07/08/2026
This is one of many reasons these kinds of tools are horrible. They let you simulate results without the competence normally required to attain them. As a result, you have no way to know their correctness or the consequences of their use. #fuckai www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/c...
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From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit: The Cutting Room Floor served Claude Code a payload telling it to wipe the working directory
Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community
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doc shartman @docshartman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
whats the matter babe you’ve barely hunted your wumpus
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 07/08/2026
I really wish developers (in the retro scene, but in general) would put obvious "Made with AI" flags on their projects. It would really save me a lot of time digging around in their repos, figuring out whether I should care about what they've made (or not made, as the case may be). #fuckai
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 05/08/2026
Can you imagine if the entirety of Northrop Grumman's contract award for the Apollo Lunar Module instead went to their lead designer personally building a giant printing press dedicated to churning out child pornography? This is essentially where we are. #spcx
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 05/08/2026
It is a national embarrassment that there are exactly zero mentions of the Human Landing System in SpaceX's earnings call today. Every dollar of public investment has gone to making sure Starlink meets earnings expectations and that the world's saddest trillionaire can keep on being sad.
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 02/08/2026
By the old gods and the new
First and second editions of The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 31/07/2026
It's a race toward a beige-colored, uninteresting bottom (that you have to pay for)
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Harter Lancet @velikizeko.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is a mark of integrity to be hated by cretins
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 27/07/2026
Still-framing a movie to catch all the details then coding an effect to match is a level of obsessed that feels very familiar to me :) Also, @kari.bsky.social wrote her own code and didn't cheat with "AI", which is way too common in the retro scene nowadays. Well done!!
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John Riney III @8bithe.art · 20/07/2026
okay two weeks to #vcfwest and everything's broken anxiety speedrun any% let's go
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